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Heroku is comparable to AWS Fargate/RDS pricing in many cases, but easier to setup/understand/maintain. IMO it seems reasonably priced in a lot of situations, w
by watermelon0 6y ago
Heroku is comparable to AWS Fargate/RDS pricing in many cases, but easier to setup/understand/maintain. IMO it seems reasonably priced in a lot of situations, where we are talking about business use.
However, for personal use, if you have a few small (web)apps, it's way too expensive compared to a DigitalOcean or similar VPS.
For example, 3 applications with Postgres DBs cost 3x(7+7) = 42$/month, whereas it's entirely possibly to run this on a 5$ DO droplet.
- tdeck 6y ago> it's entirely possibly to run this on a 5$ DO droplet. In fact I do exactly this using Dokku, and have several small apps running in the same $5 droplet.
- mromanuk 6y agoAlternatively, you can scale with caprover, which can deploy to many servers using Docker swarm
- matt2000 6y agoTip for that situation: Since Heroku runs on AWS, you can just use a single RDS DB instance to serve as the database for a bunch of hobby instances. Really hard to beat the $5/dyno hobby pricing considering the feature set.
- rurban 6y agoWell, the 0$/dyno pricing on Heroku for free projects beats that easily. When Redhat OpenShift threw us out, Heroku was the best place left for free perl hosting. Lots of good places for static hosting, mostly GitHub Pages, but dynamic Heroku is still the place to go.